Into the Wild Into the Wild

Malkit Shoshan highlight and examines the ethical and moral aspects of these developments.The Netherlands is renowned for its design expertise, on large and small scales. Its humanitarian missions and investment in development projects worldwide are also widely recognised. Over the last few decades, the idea of war and peace dividing the world into two sorts of spaces (warzone and civic realms: the ballrooms and the battlefield) have collapsed or, more accurately, become integrated. War has moved to centre stage in public space.

Today, we see increasing militarisation being implemented by the same institutions that were founded to prevent war. All this is taking place within the context of peace missions and the reconstruction of wartorn regions.

With this research, Het Nieuwe Instituut wants to link themes of innovation and conflict to contemporary design issues. The research focuses on the degree to which the military machine influences our society and the relations it enters into with architecture and urban design. "Drones and Honeycombs" is part of the programme "The Calendar Year". The First World War is the subject being highlighted in the calendar year 2014. This year we will look back on 100 years of technological progress and examine it through the perspective of the past, the present and looking forward to the future.

Malkit Shoshan is an Israeli architect living in the Netherlands. She is currently doing a PhD at Delft University of Technology and is founder of the think tank FAST (Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory).